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1.1A limited quantity of a particular product which under official controls can be produced, exported, or imported:

‘the country may be exceeding its OPEC quota of 1,100,000 barrels of oil per day’

‘But sugar is less expensive in that country than in the United States, where critics contend import quotas artificially raise sugar prices.’

‘Protective safeguards, such as import and export controls, quotas, subsidies etc, will need to be introduced over a clearly agreed transition period to all continents.’

‘Both the EU and the French government will come under pressure to fork over handouts to struggling vintners and to push for quotas on New World imports.’

‘The economic role of the state was to be reduced through privatization, welcoming foreign investments, eliminating import quotas, and reducing tariffs.’

‘The report said the abolition of import quotas on Chinese textiles and apparel in key markets in 2005 will make China a formidable competitor.’

‘Thousands of officials found employment in allocating and policing quotas in importing and exporting countries.’

‘He said higher export quotas guaranteed a secure market for the local sugar industry and were a basis for growth, which led to employment creation.’

‘As tariffs fell, the focus shifted to eliminating import quotas, which distort market behavior and the allocation of resources.’

‘An import quota directly reduces the quantity of a product that is imported and indirectly reduces the amount of money that the export producers receive.’

‘The main methods are tariffs and quotas to limit imports, plus production subsidies and export subsidies to sustain farm activity and disperse the output.’

‘Countries were each assigned a fixed quota of textiles that could be exported to markets such as the US and Europe.’

‘The government will also abolish import permissions and export quotas.’

‘Between now and 2005, tariffs will be slashed on a wide variety of products, and all import quotas will be abolished.’

‘The lifting of the import ban and the elimination of import quotas and licenses will seriously affect refined products and synthetic fibers.’

‘The idea that quotas on China's imports will spark a revival in US undergarment manufacturing is misplaced.’

‘It might seem as though a quota that limited imports to 50 percent of their pre-quota level would accomplish the same thing.’

‘Under the curb, effective for 200 days, higher tariffs will be imposed if imports exceed quotas allocated to importers.’

‘Labour-intensive export industries such as clothing and textiles, which have been limited by export quotas, will absorb most of the new jobs.’

‘The increase meant the producers exceeded their official quotas by 8.7 percent, according to the report.’

‘Tariffs and import quotas were, in the 1950s, still the principal barriers to trade.’

‘The US is considering imposing tariffs or quotas on steel imports to protect its troubled steel industry.’

1.2A fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive or is bound to contribute:

‘they were arrested to help fill the quota of arrests the security police had to make during the crackdown’

‘The Marine Corps, which reached its recruitment goal last year after missing a few monthly quotas, struggled to fill several positions.’

‘Smaller companies without political pull will be liquidated if they don't fill the quota; larger companies will be left alone.’

‘As early as next year, the Canadian share of the quota could be officially divvied up for the first time.’

‘With demand for housing continuing, it was realised that more homes were needed in order to fill Government quotas.’

‘‘The police [apparently] had a quota to fill,’ Choi said of her arrest.’

‘Many people complain that local police and judges are given arrest quotas.’

‘Last year, more than 50 universities missed their recruitment targets and 9,500 places were left empty so they will do anything to fill the quotas.’

‘The government imposed arrest quotas on local authorities and threatened to sack provincial governors who failed to meet them.’

‘The chief of the prefecture-wide drug squad was also in danger of missing government quotas for arrests.’

‘Then there was the Party itself to be purged, and spies and saboteurs to be rooted out by sending arrest quotas to every region.’

‘When the Germans attacked, there should have been enough of these guns for every division to receive its quota, but many of them were so recently out of the factories that they had not yet all been distributed to the armies.’

‘The police have to fill a daily quota of arrests, so they seize people at random.’

‘One former employee of the New Voter Project has told me that many staffers simply took names out of the telephone book to fill out their daily quotas.’

‘He was so adept at his job that he could slice his quota of animals in a fraction of the time it took other offal dressers.’